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Which teacher or staff member at GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
681
Elementary
DISTRICT 596 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COLLIER·NCES 120033008257
GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH
215 AIRPORT PULLING RD N, NAPLES, FL 34104 · (239) 784-1539 · Collier County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERREGULAR SCHOOL681 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 13% of Florida public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
253 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 85 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 82 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 69 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 73 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 71 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (85) is 20% larger than its 8th grade class (71).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
44.6%
FL avg 56.7% . -0.5pp since 2023
Math
44.5%
FL avg 58.9% . -3.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.6% | 44.5% |
| 2023-24 | 45.2% | 48.0% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
44.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 63% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH
GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH's state test result (44.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH this school | 681 | 37.2% | 44.6% |
| NEW HORIZONS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WELLINGTON | 745 | 37.9% | 55.6% |
| PEMBROKE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PEMBROKE PINES | 627 | 37.5% | 77.8% |
| COLLIER CHARTER ACADEMY NAPLES | 580 | 42.2% | 58.6% |
| WATERBRIDGE ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 644 | 40.7% | 52.5% |
| PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CORAL SPRINGS | 713 | 41.5% | 60.3% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Collier County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.6% | #1,604 of 2,136 | #34 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.5% | #1,772 of 2,149 ▼ 283 | #34 of 35 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.6% | #1,559 of 2,149 ▼ 169 | #30 of 35 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 681 | #776 of 2,267 | #9 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.0:1 | #1,434 of 2,077 | #33 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.3% | #919 of 2,108 | #8 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 37.2% | #1,660 of 2,188 | #29 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.2% | #415 of 621 | #8 of 9 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
681
+61 (+10%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
was 13.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 681 | 40 | 17.0:1 | 37% (253) |
| 2023-24 | 679 | 41 | 16.6:1 | 45% (308) |
| 2022-23 | 673 | 45 | 15.0:1 | 16% (105) |
| 2020-21 | 620 | 45 | 13.8:1 | 70% (432) |
| 2017-18 | 641 | 49 | 13.1:1 | 51% (326) |
| 2015-16 | 663 | 46 | 14.4:1 | 39% (261) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH.
About GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH
GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH is one of the public schools in NAPLES, Florida. It is a medium-sized elementary school. Its 681 students are spread across kindergarten through 8.
COLLIER has 48,252 students in 69 schools, and GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH is one of those schools.
Roughly 57% of students at GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH are Hispanic. Enrollment also includes 22% Black, 17% White, and 2% multiracial. Among people living in Collier County, the Hispanic share is about 28%. The school's diversity index is 59%, meaning two students picked at random have a 59% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Dividing enrollment by its 40 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 17.0:1. That is close to the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. Eligible students account for 37% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program. For comparison, public schools in Collier County average 48%.
GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH is graded D by allk12, scoring above 13% of Florida public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Compared with Florida schools that have similar shares of low-income students, GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH scores 17.9 points lower than predicted. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 44.6%; the prediction is 62.6%.
Census estimates describe Collier County this way: the median household income is $90,045, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 40% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. In all, Collier County has 75 public schools and roughly 48,252 students.
The shortest distance from GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH to another public school is about 0.6 miles, to MASON CLASSICAL ACADEMY. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH comes in 5th of 5 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The federal government classifies GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH's location as Suburb: Large. Federal records list GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH as a charter school.
GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH's enrollment grew from 620 in 2020-21 to 681 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 13.8:1; by 2024-25 it was 17.0:1.
Community posts for GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Collier County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
398,291
Census ACS
Median income
$90,045
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
75
48,252 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in COLLIER
- PALMETTO RIDGE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,054 students
- IMMOKALEE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,990 students
- GOLDEN GATE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,867 students
- GULF COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,714 students
- NAPLES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,535 students
- MASON CLASSICAL ACADEMYCombined · 1,509 students
Other schools in NAPLES
- PALMETTO RIDGE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,054 students
- GOLDEN GATE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,867 students
- GULF COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,714 students
- NAPLES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,535 students
- MASON CLASSICAL ACADEMYCombined · 1,509 students
- AUBREY ROGERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,496 students
Nearby schools
- MASON CLASSICAL ACADEMY0.6 mi · 1,509
- LORENZO WALKER TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 588
- THE PHOENIX PROGRAM NAPLES1.0 mi · 129
- EAST NAPLES MIDDLE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 875
- BEACON HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 214
- NEW BEGINNINGS - NAPLES1.0 mi · 37
Frequently asked questions
About GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTHHow large is GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH?
GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH enrolls approximately 681 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH serve?
GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH?
Approximately 17.0:1 students per teacher at GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH.
What is the student diversity at GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH?
Student demographics at GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH are roughly 17% White, 57% Hispanic, 22% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH?
GULF COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH is overseen by COLLIER in Collier County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.